COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST POLl 341 (ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT), FIRST SEMESTER, 2013/2014.

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE                           UNIVERSITY OF GHANA                        FIRST SEMESTER, 2013/2014                COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST LECTURERS: Dr. Evans Aggrey-Darkoh & Dr. Ransford E.V. Gyampo   EMAILS:aggreydarkoh@ug.edu.gh.vangyampo@yahoo.com

COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS

COURSE	ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT
TITLE
COURSE			POLl 341
CODE
PURPOSE
AND	The course provides a historical and analytical study of political thought among the
OBJECTIVES	Ancient Greeks, the Roman Empire and within the established church- the Holy
	Catholic Church up to the Reformation. It ends with the rise of the modem nation-
	state with Machiavelli as the prime thinker. At the end of the course, students should
	have critical understanding of the main text and ideas of classical and medieval
	political theory, and the controversies surrounding them. Though some historical
	context is provided, this is not a course in history, but in political theory
WEEK NO.	DATE	LECTURE	TUTORIALS	VENUE	ASSESSMENT
		TOPIC
1	A-8/12/2013	The nature		CC
	B-8/13/2013	and scope of
		Political
		Theory
2	A-8/19/2013	Ancient Greek		CC
	B-8/20/2013	Political
		Philosophy&
		institutions
3	A-8/26/2013	Plato		CC
	B-8/27/2013
4	A-9/02/2013	Plato		CC
	B-9/03/2013
5	A-9/09/2013	Aristotle		CC
	B-9/10/2013
				CC
6	A-9/18/2013	Aristotle		CC

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	B-9/20/2013
7	A-9/25/2013	Cicero		CC	Interim
	B-9/27/2013				Assessment
					(30%)
8	A-9/16/2013	Seneca		CC
	B-9/17 /2013
	A-9/23/2013	St. Augustine		CC
9	B-9/24/2013
10	A-9/30/2013	St. Augustine		CC
	B-
	10/01/2013
11	A-	St. Aquinas		CC
	10/07/2013
	B-
	10/08/2013
12	A-	Machiavelli		CC
	10/14/2013
	B-
	10/15/2013
13	A-	Machiavelli		CC
	10/21/2013
	B-
	10/22/2013
14			REVISION
15-17		EXAMINATION (70%)

COURSE READINGS

J.S McClelland, A History of Western Political Thought, (London: Routledge, 2002)

George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory, 4th edition, (New Delhi: Oxford& IBN Publishing Co.PVT Ltd., 1973)

Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon (eds.), Princeton readings in political Thought: Essential Text since Plato, (New Jersey: Princeton University press 1996)

Prangobinda Das, History of Political Thought, (Calcutta: Central, 2001)

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Thucydides, History of Peloponnesian war, Translated by Rex Warner, (New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 1972), Book II, sections 33-66, Books III, sections 36-50, 69-85; Book V, sections 48-116)

Plato, The Republic, A New Translation Robin Waterfield,(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

McDonald L. Cameron, Western Political Thought, Part 1 Ancient and Medieval, (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1968)

Forsters M.B, Masters of Political Thought Plato to Machiavelli, (New York: the Riverside Press 1941)

Aristotle, The Politics, Translated by T. A Sinclair, (London Penguin Books, 1962)

Aristotle, The Politics, Translated by Lord Carnes, (Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 1984)

Aquinas: Selected Political Writings, edited with Introduction by A.P D' entreves, (Oxford Basil Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1959)

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Translated by George Bull, (New York: Penguin Books, 2003

John Plamenatz, Man and Society, (New York: Longman Group Ltd., 1963)

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1. There will be thirteen weeks of lectures. Full participation in the lectures is a prerequisite for       admission into the final examinations.

2. Each student must attend tutorials each week to be organized by tutorial assistants. Students are advised to effectively participate in the discussions. It must be emphasized that tutorials are not second lectures.

3. Most of the reading materials exist in the Department of Political Science Library and the Balme Library. Some of the core readings are available in the General Office of the Department of the Political Science, University of Ghana.

4. It is imperative for students to read the literature much more intently in order to identify the       hidden truths (read with understanding).

5. There will be mid-term and final examinations. The distribution of the marks is as follows:

Mid-term Assessment = 30%

Final Examination

=70%

Total

=100%

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